Bobs with Security Clearance

[pacharan]

Mate of mine works for a well known aerospace company and he was telling me that they have Indian Contractors with SC.

These guys are recent arrivals too plus the fact they are operating in their own right and not farmed out via some consultancy.

How many rules have been bent here I wonder?

I personally don't have SC and as a result rarely get considered for anything in the defence sector. I also know a couple of people who have failed SC for the most pernicketty reasons - one of them for being bound over to keep the piece for a year after some rugger hi jinx when he was 17.

So HTF do they clear someone who has spent their entire life on the other side of the world about whom we know nothing?

[mrdonuts]

i'll say it before one of the frogs in boiling water posters do you must be some crazy right wing bnp supporting dailymail reader to raise a question like that

[pmeswani]

i'll say it before one of the frogs in boiling water posters do you must be some crazy right wing bnp supporting dailymail reader to raise a question like that

What does that make me, being an British born Indian? I have issues with Indians coming into this country and taking jobs that can easily be done by British Nationals, even at SC & DV Clearance levels.

[amcdonald]

Perhaps it was bob a job week ?

[BrilloPad]

i'll say it before one of the frogs in boiling water posters do you must be some crazy right wing bnp supporting dailymail reader to raise a question like that

Surely it is right to ask the question about the right for any non British person to work in defence?

In fact I am amazed that anyone who is not a british passport holder can get SC.

[SupremeSpod]

Mate of mine works for a well known aerospace company and he was telling me that they have Indian Contractors with SC.

These guys are recent arrivals too plus the fact they are operating in their own right and not farmed out via some consultancy.

How many rules have been bent here I wonder?

I personally don't have SC and as a result rarely get considered for anything in the defence sector. I also know a couple of people who have failed SC for the most pernicketty reasons - one of them for being bound over to keep the piece for a year after some rugger hi jinx when he was 17.

So HTF do they clear someone who has spent their entire life on the other side of the world about whom we know nothing?

Bollocks.

Officially you don't know why clearance is refused.

[pmeswani]

Surely it is right to ask the question about the right for any non British person to work in defence?

In fact I am amazed that anyone who is not a british passport holder can get SC.

Strange as it may seem, some people have dual nationality. If memory serves me correctly, the SC clearance process asks the question about dual nationality and whether you hold one or intend on applying for one.

A foreign national is allowed to hold SC clearence, but are not allowed to access information that is classed / deemed as UK Eyes Only. So if the foreign national is seeing information that is UKEO, then action needs to be taken, but it is unlikely that someone on the inside will grass.

[Paddy]

Mate of mine works for a well known aerospace company and he was telling me that they have Indian Contractors with SC.

These guys are recent arrivals too plus the fact they are operating in their own right and not farmed out via some consultancy.

How many rules have been bent here I wonder?

I personally don't have SC and as a result rarely get considered for anything in the defence sector. I also know a couple of people who have failed SC for the most pernicketty reasons - one of them for being bound over to keep the piece for a year after some rugger hi jinx when he was 17.

So HTF do they clear someone who has spent their entire life on the other side of the world about whom we know nothing?

The requirements for Bobs getting SC in the UK is lower. They need to produce documents certifying that they are good citizens and have a clean police record in India. Considering that a third of new police applicants in India have forged driving licences; I would not trust a Bob

[cojak]

Mate of mine works for a well known aerospace company and he was telling me that they have Indian Contractors with SC.

These guys are recent arrivals too plus the fact they are operating in their own right and not farmed out via some consultancy.

How many rules have been bent here I wonder?

I personally don't have SC and as a result rarely get considered for anything in the defence sector. I also know a couple of people who have failed SC for the most pernicketty reasons - one of them for being bound over to keep the piece for a year after some rugger hi jinx when he was 17.

So HTF do they clear someone who has spent their entire life on the other side of the world about whom we know nothing?

I know people in more than one aerospace company - are you talking IT contractors or Engineering contractors here?

[northernladuk]

Bollocks.

Officially you don't know why clearance is refused.

Indeed. A story based on hearsay isn't the best platform for a discussion really is it.